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Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-02
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Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-02
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This book compares the Italian Fascist and the Spanish Falangist political cultures from the early 1930s to the early 1940s, using the idea of the nation as the focus of the comparison. It argues that the discourse on the nation represented a common denominator between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-01
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Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-01
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Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and Northern slave traders for saddling them with slavery, most were uncomfortable with the institution. While many wanted it ended, most were...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-01
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In January 1942, Soviet press photographers came upon a scene like none they had ever documented. That day, they took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity, where an estimated 7,000 Jews and others were executed at an anti-tank trench near Kerch on...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-01
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This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the postwar and Cold War periods, eras marked by the political, economic, social, and cultural battle between the United States and Soviet Union. Focusing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-30
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"This book brings together feminist histories in education with an innovative approach to epistolary narrative analytics. In deploying the notion of the epistolary bildung the author rigorously and eloquently shows how the correspondence of Barbara Bodichon...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-30
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A tale of Gilded Age corruption and greed from the frontier of Alaska to America's capital.In the feverish, money-making age of railroad barons, political machines, and gold rushes, corruption was the rule, not the exception. Yet the Republican mogul "Big Alex" McKenzie...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-06-30
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This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-30
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These are the letters received and sent by Charles Henry Brown between the years 1847 and 1864.
As an aeronaut, Brown’s lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-06-30
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This book, which builds on a three-year immersive ethnographic study, argues that what scene participants do and say within the northern soul scene constitutes a claim to belong. For younger members, making claims to belong is problematic in a scene where dominant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-29
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This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-29
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A COMPANION TO ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MUSICA comprehensive guide to music in Classical Antiquity and beyond Drawing on the latest research on the topic,A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music provides a detailed overview of the most important issues raised by the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-26
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'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and infamous ladies...
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Riverrun
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2020-06-25
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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come.
Robert...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come.
Robert...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-25
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This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently understood in isolation. Moreover, the book argues that broad...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-24
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This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in schools and universities were improving, there were few fellowships or chances of paid employment in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-23
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